The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-01-15


Fruit or rust stains on table linen
or other white cloths may be removed
by soaking in weak solution of oxslic
acid. -Boston Post.
III your hogs begin to cough TOOL
out for malignant lung troubles. Il
they NOPE and lie about their beds in
festival difficulties may be suspected
Plenty OF pure air, pure water and
varied food will scare away malignant
diseases. = lereldpd Leader.
Ounce Marmalade: Take the
ounces that ron have boiled for jelly
and mash them with spoon; to Z
pound of ounces take q pound Of sugar;
boil them together until they are we'll
softened; then strain through coarse
sieve and put in small jar Boston
Budget.
Turn the plants in. the windows
around occasionally, so that all sides
may have an equal share of the light
and sun. Plants naturally grow toward
the light, and If not turned soon 40.
qnire that bent, lean-to appearance so
often seen with plants in the window.
--Sdn Francisco Chronicle.
Mixed Pickle: Chop together half
. head of cabbage, three onions, one
bunch Of celery, ono dozen small Gu
cumbers. Chop fine; season with pep
per, salt and vinegar. Salad dressing
improves It. This is quickly made, and
viii be found very good. The House
hold.
Mullins: Beat well the yelks and
whites Of four eggs separately; to the
yclks add three pints sweet milk. two
heaping teaspoonfuIs baking powder,
salt, stir in enough -four to make bat
ter, then add the whites of the eggs,
one-half cup butter, drop into gem pans
and bake Immediately - Good House
eeeptsq.
A New York farmer claims that
an acre of Hubbard squashes will fat
ten several more hogs than an acre of
corn. This may be true, but many
farmers who can raise corn success
fully might not succeed with squashes,
which, owing to insects and bugs, are
. much moro uncertain crop than the
former.
Pressed Beet: Take leg bone of
beef. one with q good deal OF meat and
grist1c. and boil till every bit of the
meat can be scraped from the bone.
Then add a little Of the liquor the meat
was boiled in. With salt, pepper and
sage to taste; mix thoroughly, pour in
to q crock, put weight on it, and set
away in a cool place until thoroughly
cold, when it will slice down nicely
The Caterer.
This recipe for little dumplings for
stew requires sour cream and sour TX
or buttermilk. Halt pint of butter
m TX or sour milk. half pint Of sour
cream, one teaspoonful of soda in the
milk. two well-beaten eggs, little salt,
and -four enough, with which is sifted
one tcaspoonful of cream OF tartar, to
make stiff batter. Drop the batter.
by the spoonful into boiling water, boil
for twenty minutes until the outside is
done and put in the dish with tho
stew. boston Globe.
"A correspondent of an exchange,
speaking of the DETACHMENT of paint by
tho inadvertent or needless scratching OF
says that he has observed that
when one mark has been made, others
follow rapidly. To effectually prevent
this, rub the spot with flannel saturated
with liquid vsseline. After that. peo-
pie may try to strike matches ever so
hard, they will neither get q light nor
injure the paint; and, what is most
singular, the petroleum causes the cx-
sting mark to soon disappear, at least
when it occurs on dark paint.